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Mother’s Day ticket specials at Playhouse, Footlighters
Playhouse in the Park offers $25 tickets to both the 2 and 7 p.m. performances of blues musical fantasy “Thunder Knocking on the Door.” Redeem the offer at the Playhouse website, www.cincyplay.com and entering the Promo Code: Mom. Patrons can also call...
Posted: 5/11/2012 11:36 AM
Review: Broadway touring 25th anniversary “Les Miz”
Cincinnati loves “Les Miz.” The week-long tour of the mega-hit musical telling of Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables,” continuing at the Aronoff through Sunday, was all but sold-out before it opened. (Early in the week, there were a very few obstructed view...
Posted: 5/10/2012 12:17 PM
Local celebs try improv with The Second City
Playhouse in the Park has booked a line-up of local celebs for “Walk-On Wednesdays” post-performance improv sessions with the cast of “The Second City 2: Less Pride … More Pork.” Every week night performance “Pride/Pork” features an 10- to 15-minute segment...
Posted: 5/8/2012 12:44 PM
Second City offers improv classes at Playhouse
The Second City troupe in residence at Playhouse in the Park with “The Second City Does Cincinnati 2: Less Pride…More Pork” is offering a series of improvisation workshops through June: No improv background needed unless noted, call Playhouse for more...
Posted: 5/4/2012 9:54 AM
Rebeck’s “Seminar” nominated for Broadway awards
It’s awards season in New York and Cincinnati native Theresa Rebeck’s “Seminar” is doing fine. It’s nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play (winners announced May 24) and is a nominee for the Drama League’s Distinguished...
Posted: 4/24/2012 3:07 PM
Louis Langree will be 13th music director of CSO
Vacationing Janelle Gelfand reports that Louis Langrée will be the 13th music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. The French conductor signed a four-year contract today at Music Hall. He will begin his tenure in the 2013-14 season. Here’s a...
Posted: 4/24/2012 1:39 PM
Xanadu skates onto Carnegie stage with Kenny at helm
Ancient Greece, roller disco and Alan Patrick Kenny are the ingredients in The Carnegie 2012-13 theater season opener in Agist (Aug. 11-26), feel-good musical “Xanadu” (yes, inspired by the godawful movie but nevertheless a hoot.) Kenny, co- founder of...
Posted: 4/23/2012 10:08 AM
“Red,” Lala win theater awards
Playhouse in the Park’s “Red,” about a slice of artist Mark Rothko’s life, and co-produced with Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, won big awards at the Kevin Kline Awards in St Louis: Steven Woolf was named Outstanding Director of a Play; “Red” tied as...
Posted: 4/5/2012 10:21 AM
“Grapes” is season stand-out for Cincy Shakes
NEW! I’m going to start putting many (but not necessarily all) reviews on the Buzz blog. Couldn’t be happier to be starting with Cincinnati Shakespeare’s highly recommended “The Grapes of Wrath” Cincinnati Shakespeare delivers a slam-bang stage adaptation...
Posted: 3/31/2012 8:03 AM
Eight hours at the Humana Festival
I caught a one-day triple feature at this year’s Humana Festival of New American Plays, wich wraps this weekend. Pretty much as an accident of scheduling, I caught the two buzziest shows: “The Veri**on Play” was essentially sold out in mid-March and I’m...
Posted: 3/28/2012 1:18 PM
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